Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/15] x86: remove early_gdt_descr reference | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:23:02 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:16 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote: > since we use switch_to_new_gdt, there is no point > in assigning early_gdt_descr except for the first > assignment, which is done manually.
What makes you think you can do this? If you don't update the early boot gdt, they all end up using the Boot CPU one. The problem with this is that there's a time from start_secondary to switch_to_new_gdt where the per cpu selector (%fs) and the pda selector (%gs) are those of the boot CPU. The former isn't a problem but the CPU number is in the latter, and it's used in that path before we get to the initialisation.
James
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